Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scouting Trip. But that Francis Case had leaped to some pretty accurate conclusions was indicated when Lawyer John Neff was called as a witness. Neff identified himself as a $12,000-a-year lobbyist for California's Superior Oil Co., which also produces natural gas. Last fall, said Neff, he went to South Dakota to scout Case's views on the gas bill, wound up talking to the business manager of the Argus Leader, Ernest J. Kahler. Neff inquired if Case needed campaign funds. Kahler said he might. Neff asked Kahler to find out how Case stood...
...personal expenditures, Lausche is just as tender with the taxpayer: he insists on paying his own expenses, above transportation costs, whenever he makes a business trip. (Jane Lausche is equally scrupulous with the housekeeping budget for the governor's mansion. She sometimes splits the cost of a pound of coffee with the state: so many cups for private, personal use, so many for official guests...
Apparently Khrushchev & Co. hoped to get some windfall out of parading Burgess and Maclean at this moment, hoping either to smooth the way for Khrushchev's forthcoming trip to London, or to muddy up the recent Anglo-American accord. Foreign Office officials have suspected Maclean's hand in the skillful phrasing of Bulganin's two recent "peace" notes to President Eisenhower. But the circumstances of the hotel interview indicated that, though they might be useful in phrasing messages, the Russians regard the two ex-diplomats as no more than propaganda puppets...
...varsity was strong at the top three positions as usual with Ben Heckscher, Cal Place, and Pete Milton winning easily. However, Barnaby was pleased mainly by the bottom three players, who moved up from the second team to replace varsity men who couldn't make the trip. John Davis, Frank Bacon, and Hank Holmes all came through with convincing victories...
...Mark Tobay, 65, began his painting career by copying Satevepost covers, tried painting lamps, then moved to the Northwest and took up art teaching. A trip to China in 1934 turned Tobey from a follower into a force. Learning that Oriental art started with calligraphy, he has ever since been making determined stabs in the direction of ending Occidental art the same way. Tobey is today revered and reviled as the inventor of something called "white writing." Tobey's writing is, of course, quite illegible. Cast in loose, delicate swirls, it can soothe the restless eye as much...